When reading a classic book, we tend to pay attention to the themes, the characters, and the story. We say the words aloud. We notice everything, in fact, except for one crucial thing: the punctuation ...

Punctuation marks are the unsung heroes of writing. Everybody uses them and whenever they do not it looks weird to see a sentence run on so long without any breaks. Scientist and Princeton University ...

Experienced writers know this elegant punctuation mark is the best way to join closely related clauses; really, it’s the only way. “It’s too subtle,” author Jenny Hammer says. “People would rather ...

Unless you’re a particularly earnest kind of grammar nerd, you probably don’t spend much time thinking about punctuation. Yet punctuation is what provides great literature with its excitement (!), ...

A book about punctuation, an unlikely bestseller in any year, won the top prize at the British Book Awards ceremonies. “Eats, Shoots & Leaves,” a lighthearted look at the pitfalls of apostrophes and ...

A few years back I set out to write a comprehensive punctuation book — one that laid out the rules for proper punctuation in every situation imaginable. How naïve I was. You don’t have to spend a lot ...